Re: [Boost-build] How to build project comprising of sources in different dirs

From: Frank Birbacher (bloodymir.crap_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-21 05:52:53

Hi!

Vladimir Prus schrieb:
> I'd suggest this:
> 
> 	lib common_proper : [ glob *.cpp ] <link>static ;
> 	alias common : common_proper /boost//filesystem ;

Ok. Nice idea, but I figured it doesn't scale well. Imagine a structre like:

lib Utils ;
lib Common : Utils ;
exe Main : Common Utils ;

If the libraries where build like you suppose, the Common lib will 
already include the Utils and MSVC will reject linking of Main.exe due 
to duplicate symbols for every external library (like boost.date_time) 
of Utils.

Well, to show what I mean exactly I attached two examples. One I 
constructed like you suggested which fails to build link=shared on msvc. 
The second I constructed like I suggest using "bundle" instead of "lib" 
which has smaller/nicer Jamfiles and build on msvc.

As a note: I also tried those examples on linux/gcc-4.1.2 where all of 
them work using link=static,shared. I even have tried more examples all 
of which failed linking using msvc. The examples experiment with "<use>" 
and "<library>", requirements/usage-requirements in the alias rule like 
you proposed (thus 4 more examples).

Regards,
Frank